RobotsMali AI4D Lab Press Release

RobotsMali AI4D Lab, Mali’s international anglophone and Malian national languages AI lab, was a featured innovator at the Global AI Summit Africa (GAIS), April 3-4, and participated in 3 additional workshops in a week which saw a brilliant, continent-wide future for AI in Africa traced out in a series of events in Kigali, Rwanda.

GAIS Africa:
The creation of a $60 billion Africa AI Fund to drive future innovation and infrastructure development was among the key announcements at GAIS.
RobotsMali AI4D Lab was one of just 30 organizations selected continent-wide to present its work in the Innovation Gallery seen by over 2,000 of Africa’s top thought leaders in the AI space.
We presented our comprehensive AI-powered solution to eliminating illiteracy in Mali, including GAIFE, our human+AI generated library of 200 children’s books with supporting educational materials in Malian national languages, NKALAN, our Bambara reading tutor app, SƐBƐN!, our Bambara chat writing assistant, DONISSO, a multi-modal digital skills, computer science, and AI interactive learning platform, the Adama Samassekou national Bambara reading competition, and our open university curriculum for AI.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges in AI Community of Practice (CoP) Workshop :
As a winner of a Gates Foundation grant for our generative AI project GAIFE, RobotsMali AI4D Lab was invited to join 100 other grantées from Africa, India, and Brazil in the first meeting of the AI CoP with the aim of sharing knowledge and establishing collaborations in the critical areas where AI can address human needs such as health care and education.

AI4D Africa :
As a member of the AI4D Africa network of AI Labs, RobotsMali AI4D Lab joined 10 other labs from Senegal (2), Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and South Africa (2) to make plans for enhanced collaboration on shared curriculum and research collaboration and student exchanges.

EQUAL Compute Network Workshop :
Aiming to greatly increase the computing capacity of African AI Labs and innovators with large-scale donations for an international funding group, RobotsMali AI4D Lab was invited to this workshop to develop plans for deploying massive amounts of cloud and on-premises GPU resources across the continent. We hope to see some of those resources coming to Mali soon!